Hi there on Steemit! I'm also a self-taught photographer, and also a newbie here. I really love the first picture of the storm, is it a composite or only long exposure (and how long? :D). See you around!
Hi there on Steemit! I'm also a self-taught photographer, and also a newbie here. I really love the first picture of the storm, is it a composite or only long exposure (and how long? :D). See you around!
It's what Olympus cameras call Live Composite; it is useful for many kinds of photography such as lightning, fireworks, etc. It makes one image but it's a long exposure that collects individual sub-exposures so that the light doesn't over expose, using an electronic shutter to basically make multiple exposures all stacked and blended into a single image file. This was 30 seconds long and taking six second exposures so that each time the lightning flashed, it only records pixels brighter than those in the underlying frames. Hard to explain unless you understand how to blend layers in Photoshop in Lighten mode, then it all makes sense.
yeah, I know PS well and I got a chance to use live composite on an olympus camera some months ago. I did some storm photos attempts in the past, but I only used long exposure and continuous mode to take 10+ seconds frames.